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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you shoud look deeper than just FARMS.

ELL/Special Ed/Economically Disadvantaged %s

CMI:    5.5/33.7/22.7
LAMB: 37.7/12.3/24.6
MV:    20.8/7.4/32.9
YY:     5.9/8.3/9.5
ITS:   4.4/12.3/18.3

Oyster: 12.9/12.0/20.8[/quote]

You just made my point.  YY's FARMS rate is the lowest by far--it's in the single digits!  All of these other schools have double-digit poverty rates; most of them reach into the 20-30% range.  YY also also has some of the lowest ELL and Spec. Ed. rates.  Based on those facts, YY should out score all of those schools, including Oyster.  Clearly, it does not.[/quote]

And if the PARCC was administered in Mandarin, this would look different.  Maybe that's too complicated for some of you, but the kind of families that choose YY aren't interested in the "teach to the test philosophy" - if we were, our children wouldn't spend half their time in Chinese instead of English.  [/quote]

If the PARCC was administered in Spanish, how would YY students do compared to Oyster?  You see where this is going, right?  Despite is relative affluence, YY produced unimpressive test scores this year.  They were tested in the same language that everyone else received.[/quote]

It takes at least 4x as long to learn Chinese as Spanish (according to the U.S. State Dept.), and if you don't start as a child you'll never get the tones right.  [/quote]

THE TEST IS IN ENGLISH!!![/quote]

This is hard for you.  I'll try to help explain, but I can't do anything about you being mentally challenged.

Children in immersion programs spend only half their time in English.  So the kids in 4th grade at YY (1/2 time English beginning in K, so 4 full years) have had the same amount of English language instruction as the kids in 2nd at Mann (Pk - 2 only English).  Except, the YY kids can also speak and do math in Mandarin.[/quote]

Do they get mediocre scores in Mandarin, too?[/quote]

Actually mine are doing wonderfully.  Would you like the name of a Chinese babysitter?[/quote]

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